Biloxi Blues is a 1988 American military comedy drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Neil Simon, and starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken.

Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1984 play of the same title, the second chapter in what is known as the Eugene trilogy, the first being Brighton Beach Memoirs and the third being Broadway Bound.

During World War II, Jewish teenager Eugene Jerome of Brooklyn is drafted into the United States Army and is sent to basic training at Keesler Field near Biloxi, Mississippi.

One evening, Jerome proposes that each man share his fantasy of how he would spend his final days if he had only a week to live.

Near the end of the platoon's training, Toomey gets drunk because he has an upcoming appointment at a veterans hospital and believes he will be discharged for disability.

As his fellow privates sleep on a train while en route to their next duty stations, Jerome informs the audience of the destiny of each.

[8] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a very classy movie, directed and toned up by Mike Nichols so there's not an ounce of fat in it.

[9] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post thought the film was "an endearing adaptation" and "overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues" despite some "fallow spells and sugary interludes".

[5] Variety called it "an agreeable but hardly inspired film" and added: "Even with high-powered talents Mike Nichols and Matthew Broderick aboard, [the] World War II barracks comedy provokes just mild laughs and smiles rather than the guffaws Simon's work often elicits in the theater".

[10] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film "pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable" and added, "nothing in this movie seems fresh, well-observed, deeply felt or even much thought about ...